UKIP fail to attack the EU's 'designer
floods'

While it was not the press conference Nigel Farage referenced
in his tweet to me yesterday, this morning he was interviewed for
over 4 minutes by Sky News’ Dermot Murnaghan, in Somerset,
about the floods there. UKIP have put the full interview up on
their website. Watch via this link:

Despite having days in which to take on board the extent of
EU’s responsibility, for turning what would have been
annoying floods into a major incident that has gone on for weeks,
the sum total of Farage’s effort to explain it to
Sky’s audience was this reference to the Environment
Agency’s role in the matter:

They seem to want to follow European
Directives to the letter of the law…

This from a man whose primary focus is allegedly fighting
tooth and nail for the UK to leave the EU. Presented with yet
another golden opportunity to highlight who really runs Britain,
following his Farage on Friday piece before the weekend, and help
voters understand and reflect about whether this is in British
interests or whether we should determine laws for ourselves, he
again passed it up.

Thankfully, Christopher Booker published a valuable piece
about the EU’s role in degrading Britain work on flood
prevention in his Sunday Telegraph column today. At least someone
with a substantial profile has tackled this head on while the
politicians and lamestream media tip-toe around it and do their
best to avoid any mention of the part our supreme government in
Brussels has played in making flooding in recent years far worse
than it ever would have been.

With a sizeable number of UKIP members not seeing leaving the
EU as the number one issue for the party, it seems the leader is
one of their number and EUscepticism is being forced off the
party political agenda to make way for other topics.